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COMMON WOMENS ISSUES IN THREE LITERARY WORKS

men such as Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It is also fortunate for us, that in the late 1800's to the early part of the 1900's there were women, rich enough to have the luxury of leisure which enabled them write about what they felt were very important issues for women. In Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" and Edith Wharton's "Souls Belated" the two main characters were to me admirably brave, daring, and courageous women. They were women whose souls were belatedly awakened and seemed to have gone through a metamorphoses. These two women find that they no longer desire to live by the imposed social moral convention of the time. They dared to act upon their passion and emotions by opting and daring to live in sin, in order to exercise their own independence and personal freedom; in other words, they refused to live with the public.Though Kate Chopin's character, Edna, is portrayed as less than a devoted mother, but in the end, she gives up her life for her children sake. She commits suicide so that in the future, her children would not be the objects of malicious societal gossip because of her infidelities. In Gilman's Yellow Wallpaper the main character's (name not mentioned) motherly instincts, are nearly non-existent, since it is implied that part of her mental illness has been triggered by postpartum syndrome. "This lack of motherly instinct is depicted when she makes one of the few references to her child "It is fortunate Mary is so good to the baby, such a dear baby, and yet, I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous" (664). In each of the stories the women took dissimilar paths. The paths taken, though unintentional and unconventional, by Chopin and Gilman's heroines have very serious consequences, but lead them to their desired freedom and out of their intolerable life responsibilities. Chopin's character welcomes death through drowning. Gilman's ch...

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